Binary-swap volumetric rendering on the T3D

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Engineering
Department Computing, School of
Creator Hansen, Charles D.
Other Author de Verdiere, G. Colin; Krogh, Michael; Painter, James; Troutman, Roy
Title Binary-swap volumetric rendering on the T3D
Date 1995
Description This paper presents a data distributed parallel raytraced volume rendering algorithm and its implementation on the CRI T3D. This algorithm distributes the data and the computational load to individual processing units to achieve fast and high-quality rendering of high-resolution data. The volume data, once distributed, is left intact. The processing nodes perform local raytracing of their subvolume concurrently. No communication between processing units is needed during this local ray-tracing process. A subimages is generated by each processing unit and the final image is obtained by compositing subimages in the proper order by the Binary-Swap algorithm. Performance of this algorithm on the T3D is presented and compared to an implementation on the CM-5.
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Publisher Cray User Group (CUG)
Journal Title Cray Users Group Conference
First Page 61
Last Page 9
Subject Volume rendering; Binary-swap; Ray tracing; Parallel rendering
Subject LCSH Rendering (Computer graphics); Parallel processing (Electronic computers); Visualization; Computer graphics
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Hansen, C. D., de Verdiere, G. C., Krogh, M., Painter, J., & Troutman, R. (1995). Binary-swap volumetric rendering on the T3D. Cray Users Group Conference, March 1995, Denver, CO, 61-9.
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65m6pzc